Movies: Sidney Olcott

  • 1914
    Come Back to Erin

    Come Back to Erin (1914)

    Come Back to Erin

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    The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he may wed Peggy O'Malley in a style befitting her beauty. Peggy's father, Michael, favors Jerry's suit, but Peggy has a mind of her own, and takes pass...

    Come Back to Erin
  • 1913
    The Wives of Jamestown

    The Wives of Jamestown (1913)

    The Wives of Jamestown

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    The romance between Bryan O'Sullivan and Lady Geraldine is broken when he unjusily suspects that she is unfaithful. He sails for America, and, becoming a colonist at Jamestown, Virginia, takes the name of John Pierce. Lady Geraldine's castle is besie...

    The Wives of Jamestown
  • 1914
    For Ireland's Sake

    For Ireland's Sake (1914)

    For Ireland's Sake

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    Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms....

    For Ireland's Sake
  • 1926
    The Amateur Gentleman

    The Amateur Gentleman (1926)

    The Amateur Gentleman

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    Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys...

    The Amateur Gentleman
  • 1912
    A Prisoner of the Harem

    A Prisoner of the Harem (1912)

    A Prisoner of the Harem

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    Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted. Young American woman, well educated and speaking French and German, may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian. Fare ...

    A Prisoner of the Harem
  • 1908
    Way Down East

    Way Down East (1908)

    Way Down East

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    Way Down East
  • 1915
    The Moth and the Flame

    The Moth and the Flame (1915)

    The Moth and the Flame

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    A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman....

    The Moth and the Flame
  • 1911
    Rory O'More

    Rory O'More (1911)

    Rory O'More

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    Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle....

    Rory O'More
  • 1911
    The Special Messenger

    The Special Messenger (1911)

    The Special Messenger

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    During the Civil War, a woman helps her injured husband by delivering an important message to his general....

    The Special Messenger
  • 1915
    Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr

    Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr (1915)

    Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr

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    This play is enacted during the stormy days when Robert Emmett tried vainly to free Ireland. Con Daly loves Nora Doyle, who lives with her mother in a little cottage amid the hills and dales of old Erin. In a cave nearby the men who would free Irelan...

    Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr
  • 1925
    The Best People

    The Best People (1925)

    The Best People

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    Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have different plans--Bertie is in love with chorus girl Sally O'Neil and Marian loves Henry Morgan, the family ch...

    The Best People
  • 1913
    Lady Peggy’s Escape

    Lady Peggy’s Escape (1913)

    Lady Peggy’s Escape

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    A group of English Soldiers take the Home of the Fitzgeralds from its rightful owners, and force the daughter Peggy to stay and entertain them. A resourceful girl she escapes but is pursued...

    Lady Peggy’s Escape
  • 1911
    By a Woman's Wit

    By a Woman's Wit (1911)

    By a Woman's Wit

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    Captain Jasper, a Union officer, is sent on a secret service mission to the Confederate headquarters. Safe through the lines Captain Jasper, disguised as a Commissary Supply Agent, meets old friends who are Northern sympathizers. Visiting Confederate...

    By a Woman's Wit
  • 1911
    For Love of an Enemy

    For Love of an Enemy (1911)

    For Love of an Enemy

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    A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, with whom he falls in love. The Spy enters into the social life. At a garden party he again meets Hallie and they become better acquainted. Gradually the...

    For Love of an Enemy
  • 1912
    Ireland, the Oppressed

    Ireland, the Oppressed (1912)

    Ireland, the Oppressed

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    The story of the Emerald Isle years ago. Showing the struggle against poverty, evictions by hard-hearted landlords, hill fighting and the final triumph of the downtrodden....

    Ireland, the Oppressed
  • 1916
    The Innocent Lie

    The Innocent Lie (1916)

    The Innocent Lie

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    Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named Nora who is on her way to visit her aunt in the US, Mrs. Watson, who has not seen her niece in many y...

    The Innocent Lie
  • 1911
    The Little Soldier of ’64

    The Little Soldier of ’64 (1911)

    The Little Soldier of ’64

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    The Little Soldier of ’64
  • 1912
    Tragedy of the Desert

    Tragedy of the Desert (1912)

    Tragedy of the Desert

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    An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being discovered by wandering Bedouins, Dr. Cochran embraces their practices and begins to fall in love wit...

    Tragedy of the Desert
  • 1927
    The Claw

    The Claw (1927)

    The Claw

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    Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where native uprisings and the jealous connivings of Maurice Stair await her....

    The Claw
  • 1911
    Her Chum’s Brother

    Her Chum’s Brother (1911)

    Her Chum’s Brother

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    Her Chum’s Brother